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Design Essentials

Four practical design paragraphs, with Edexcel-specific phrasing when that board is selected.

Four design states for DNA showing how the same stage picture changes under different colours, intensities and atmospheres.
Think like one production team. The strongest design answers make set, costume, lighting and sound feel as if they belong to the same interpretation rather than four unrelated ideas.

Extract Focus

Pick what the extract is really about. The model paragraphs rewrite instantly.

Board lens: Not set

Set Design paragraph

SET

Lighting paragraph

LIGHTING

Sound paragraph

SOUND

Costume paragraph

COSTUME

How to use this in the exam

Identify the extract’s main pressure (power / guilt / pack / surveillance), pick the focus, then tweak one detail to match the moment. Keep terminology concrete: levels, proxemics, specials, wash, gobo, underscore, diegetic.

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